Ok, this is kind of a twist on the coming out stories. My father is an atheist and (since he sent me to a xtian school) I was xtian from young. In my 30s, however, I started reading about Buddhism and realised that was what I was looking for in xtianity all along. Anyway, once I had really decided that I was a Buddhist after all, I told my father:

Father: Don't worship the Buddha he was just a man, not some kind of god.

Me: I agree.

Father: You mean you don't worship the Buddha?

Me: Nope. He was just a man that woke up.

Father: Well, what god do they worship?

Me: None - there is no all-powerful creator-god being.

Father: Anyway, there's no thing as a soul - when this body dies, that's it.

Me: I agree (sort of but I wasn't going to get into semantics).

Father: Sounds all rather sensible then. Just don't get involved in any cults.